Void | Us and Them: Part Three

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]While Islam is the only thing that's keeping you safe.

[00:00:04]Wallah, you had better hope and pray that the Muslims stay on our religion.

[00:00:09]If you have any sense at all, you can't hold us back two billion strong. No one is scared of your bombs. No one is scared of your drones. No one is scared of your attack helicopters. You've seen that for yourselves. Muslims don't fear death. If our commitment to Islam did not hold us back, nothing would think it through. If you had any sense whatsoever, you would actually be funding programs to strengthen our Islamic knowledge, not disconnect our people from it. Believe me, you do not want to see two billion Muslims acting like you. That's the last thing that you want to see. Alhamdulillah, the iman of ordinary Muslims, the of Islam, the tbah of our consciousness and and and cognizance of the of the inevitability of standing before Allah accountable to a standard that is higher than our own feelings. That is what allows your cities to keep standing.

[00:01:05]I'm telling you, you have no idea what you are asking for when you ask us to put that down, to let that go. Why if two billion people who have every legitimate grievance that exists or could ever be imagined, if they adopted your ways, if they acted on ethnic ego, nationalistic ego, pure unrestrained, reactive rage with no divine accountability in their minds, no concept of the prohibited, no obligation to mercy, no obligation and no command to prefer peace. If they acted the way that your civilization acts when it feels wronged or frankly even when it doesn't feel wrong then it just wants more stuff. Well, what do you think that looks like? How do you think that turns out if we acted like you think it through? Your birth rates should tell you something. By the way, Germany is at approximately 1.5 births per woman. Italy is 1.2. Spain is 1.2.

[00:01:58]All well below the 2.1 replacement that is required to sustain a population.

[00:02:03]Meanwhile, in the Muslim world, alhamdulillah, with very few exceptions, we remain at or above replacement levels. Listen to me. A society that doesn't produce children is a society of people, listen to me, who have no stake in the future beyond their own lifetimes. Short-term thinking by structural necessity. Immediate gratification is the only rational calculus. When you have no future, you have no future generation who you're building for.

[00:02:31]That civilization is telling you in demographic language, your civilization is telling you in demographic language exactly what it is. And while your so-called civilization contracts and ages and turns inward, you are simultaneously trying to campaign for two billion Muslims to abandon the one framework that produces the restraint, the long-term orientation, the moral architecture, the familial stability, the communal coherence that your civilization so-called is visibly losing. You want us secular. You want us westernized. You want us to trade the Quran for your values. I'm telling you and this is the most sincere and the most honest well-intentioned thing that I can say to you. You had better be praying that we don't do that. You had better be praying that we don't do that.

[00:03:18]Allahh commanded us to try to coexist with you, to try to get along with you, to prefer stability, to prioritize mercy, to try to exhaust every peaceful means, to give people their rights regardless of their faith. These are commands to us, not suggestions, not cultural preferences. These are commands from the creator of the universe.

[00:03:41]And that's the only thing, the only thing that is the only thing standing between the accumulated weight of 1,000 years of grievances and the civilization that produced it. You understand me?

[00:03:53]Islam is the single greatest guarantee of your own security. the faith of two billion people that commands them towards peace, that commands them to be restrained even towards those who wrong them.

[00:04:05]And you are spending considerable energy trying to destroy that. I said before, you are so destructive that you're self-destructive. Alhamdulillah, you will never get us to turn away from Islam and you will never get us to adopt your ways and you should be on your knees giving thanks for that fact. So yes, even now, even now our witness function continues. You understand me?

[00:04:25]We'll still tell the truth about it when wrong is done to you, even to you. We'll still say uh and try to tell you and teach you what will genuinely benefit your societies, make your societies better and more just and more humane.

[00:04:37]Not because we're your allies, but because justice is an obligation in Islam, because you are our fellow human beings. Because we do want good for you.

[00:04:48]That's the difference between what we carry and what you carry. You understand me? You can't do this for us. You can't be that way with us. Your civilization structurally cannot produce this quality of impartiality towards a people who you have defined as other. Ours can. Your entire intellectual and institutional infrastructure is built on the assumption of your own centrality and superiority and supremacy. But we can be fair to you even while knowing exactly what you are and who you are. Can you say the same? No, you cannot.

[00:05:23]If we had done to you what you have done to us, what do you think you would have done to us by now?

[00:05:30]Think about what you have done. Think about what you have done without anyone even having done anything to you. You understand me? Imagine if we had done to you what you have done to us. If Africa had done to you what you have done to Africa. If Central and South America had done to you what you did to them. While you have already acted in the world, subhan Allah, you have already acted in the world like an unholy vengeance upon mankind even without being provoked.

[00:05:56]Imagine what you would do if your victims had actually dealt with you the way that you have dealt with your victims. Given your nature, given your character, given your penchant for remorseless brutality. Well, I don't think there would even be a world left to live in with how much carnage you would commit on the earth. I mean, how much violence you have done without justification? What if you actually had a justification? Well, listen to me. All of your victims have a justification.

[00:06:22]The Muslim world, the entire global south has a justification.

[00:06:26]But you're so primitive. You're so underdeveloped that you actually think, you actually tell yourself that the only reason we don't take revenge for all your crimes is because you have power and we don't. You see, because you simply cannot fathom people just being moral, people just being peaceful and dignified and humane and compassionate and merciful. You can't comprehend that.

[00:06:49]You genuinely believe, you genuinely believe that people only act with decency when they don't have the power to act savagely.

[00:06:58]I'm telling you, you actually believe, you think that morality is a function of weakness. No. Nothing is stopping the Muslims. Nothing is stopping Africa.

[00:07:07]Nothing is stopping Central America.

[00:07:09]Nothing is stopping South America.

[00:07:11]Nothing is stopping Asia. Nothing is stopping the entire global south.

[00:07:16]Nothing is stopping us from acting in a barbaric, univilized manner except for the fact that we are not violent and univilized barbarians because we are not the same. There is us and there is them and we are fundamentally, foundationally, profoundly different.

[00:07:36]Yes, we bear witness to the crimes that you have committed against us and we bear witness to the crimes that you have committed against others and we will even bear witness to the crimes that you commit against each other.

[00:07:48]Yes, we will speak up for the wronged amongst you even if they themselves are also guilty of their own wrongs and wrongs against us even. And we will always let you know, we will always let you know that wrongdoing itself victimizes the wrongdoer because you deserve to be better than that. You deserve to actually live according to the values that you declare. You understand me? You deserve to not be a hypocrite. You deserve to be civilized.

[00:08:15]You deserve to be decent. And you are degrading yourself and you are harming yourself and you are humiliating yourself. And you are dishonoring yourself as a human being when you act the way that your society has got you acting. That's a fact. We are not your friends and we are not your allies, but we're not your enemies either.

[00:08:37]Wallah, we want good for you because you are our brothers and sisters in humanity and because it is pleasing to Allahhana wa ta'ala for us to deal with you in this way.

[00:08:49]And how we deal with you, how we deal with you is not determined by you. Is not determined by us. How we deal with you is not determined by us. Is not determined by our emotions or by any subjective standard. It's not determined by what we ourselves might think you deserve. We deal with you according to what Allah has commanded us in terms of tolerance, in terms of patience, and in terms of compassion.

[00:09:13]And we call your actions according to that same type of objective standard.

[00:09:18]Whether you like it or not, whether we like it or not, whether we like you or not, and whether you like us or not, you understand me? It's not about allyship.

[00:09:27]It's about alignment or misalignment with the truth, alignment or misalignment with justice, alignment or misalignment with morality, alignment with right or alignment with wrong, alignment with good or alignment with evil. And we're not looking for your approval. We are not looking for your acceptance or for any reward from you or any friendship with you. Allah subhanaa tala has called us to be witnesses over mankind and it is only his acceptance.

[00:09:54]It is only his approval and it is only his reward that we're hoping for. See you'll hear that. I know you'll hear that and you will reflexively recoil from it. Your instant uh reaction to that to this kind of talk is that it is insincere and self-righteous and holier than thou or what have you. You should take note of that reaction. That's a programmed reaction. You react that way when you hear words like honor, when you hear words like dignity or words like truth or even words like justice. You have a negative reaction because of your culture, because of your society. Your your your society made those words empty of any meaning. And no one ever even uses those words except to uh reputationally manipulate you or to extort you and to try to control you.

[00:10:38]See, your society has emptied out those words of any meaning and filled it with poison instead. So now people automatically cringe when you talk like that or when you hear anyone talk like that because everyone thinks that you're posturing. But believe me, there are people in this world who still believe in what those words mean. There are people who believe in honor. There are people who believe in dignity. There are people who believe in truth. There are people who believe in justice. And they're not naive, stupid people. And they're not gullible, simple-minded people. See, you recoil at words like righteous, at words like pious or decent or modest or chasteed.

[00:11:17]Look at the meanings. Look at the concepts. Look at the the concepts that your culture has robbed from you. They took away some of the most beautiful uh and the most noble characteristics of human beings by making you skeptical. Uh anytime you hear these types of words being used, you understand me? You learned that whoever talks about these things, they don't mean it. You learned that whoever uses words like this, they must actually themselves be the opposite of what those words mean. And you learn that because in your society, that's true.

[00:11:50]You only ever hear politicians talk like that or your priests or your pastors or your propagandists. They're the only ones who ever talk about things like this. And it's always performative and it's always manipulative.

[00:12:01]And the one who's talking, the one who's using those words couldn't himself or herself be further away from any of those characteristics. So you learn that these are all empty terms or even that they're toxic terms.

[00:12:13]But they mean something to us. They mean something to most people in the world.

[00:12:19]But your society, look at it. Look at yourself. Interrogate this. Interrogate this. Your society has whittleled all human potential and all human value down to machine-like warlike utility. And morality has no place in that except as a decoy. Except as a banner that you lift over your head when you genocide genuinely moral people. That's the truth. That's the truth. And this applies across the board in your society. Across the board. It applies to those at the top and it applies to those at the bottom. And it even applies to those who were absorbed into that society against their will. Yes, it does. And I'm sorry to tell you that.

[00:12:59]Wahi. I'm sorry to tell you that. I take no pleasure whatsoever in saying it. But you know, it's like if you're dealing with an addict, if you're dealing with someone who's on crack or who's on meth or whatever the case may be, at some point someone has got to tell you you're a crackhead. If you want to be a great singer, if you dream, you know, seeing your name up in lights and being a great famous singer or something like that, but you can't carry a tune, well, at some point, someone's got to tell you.

[00:13:28]Someone's got to have the heart to tell you you can't sing. At some point in your life, you've got to face the facts of what you are, who you are, how you are, and who and what and how you are not.

[00:13:40]Reality has to be the red line. Do you understand? You got to draw the line at what's actually true. And you all have crossed that line and you have wandered far, far away from the truth. Yes, the oppressors among you and the oppressed among you. That's a fact. You are all affected. You're all affected and you're all infected by that society. You know, it's like if you're a if you're a kindergarten teacher or you're a preschool teacher or even if you're a a stay-at-home parent of small children and you're dealing with those little children, those toddlers all day long, you almost lose the ability to carry on adult conversation at some point. You know, someone's trying to talk to you about the energy transition or something and you've got the theme song to Blues Clues playing in your head. You can't concentrate.

[00:14:24]You want to be able to talk like a grown-up. You wish you could talk like a grown-up. You wish you could have grown-up conversations, but you can't even find the words. Your vocabulary is gone. Your attention span is gone. Your concentration level is fried because you're in that society. You understand me? You came up in that society. You are submerged in that society. And that's like being submerged in a vat of acid. I'm telling you, it eats away at you. It doesn't matter if you're at the top or you're at the bottom of the hierarchy. It truly doesn't. It has eaten away at your character. There's no way it can do anything else. You have subsisted your whole life on a diet of empty calories, empty rhetoric, empty moral declarations your whole life.

[00:15:06]And it doesn't even matter if you want to be good. You don't even know how.

[00:15:10]Like I said, this applies to you over there. Even if you are amongst those people who have been wronged in that society and who are actively being wronged in that society, the wronged over there are not fundamentally more moral than the ones who have wronged them. And that's the truth. That's the unfortunate truth. Being mistreated or being used and abused in that society does not in and of itself make you a moral righteous person. It just makes you someone who got mistreated and who got used and abused. That's all it makes you. And we will call out that wrong that was done to you. And if we speak up for you, understand we're not doing it for you. And we're not doing it because we think that you're good. We're not doing it because we are your friends.

[00:15:53]We're not doing it because we are your allies. We're doing it because it's right and because it is our duty. So understand, we are never on your side.

[00:16:02]No matter who you are, we are never on your side. We are only concerned, exclusively concerned with being on the right side.